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April 10, 2025
The bosses push to deny low-paid workers enough money to buy their own lunch, which contrasts with Coalition Leader Peter Dutton’s policy to spend at least $1.6 billion in taxpayers’ money each year on free lunches for bosses.
April 10, 2025
Award-reliant workers should not earn enough to live in Sydney, be able to afford lunch at work, or save for overseas holidays, according to a major employer group, in its submission to the Annual Wage Review.
April 10, 2025
Australian Unions are releasing a new report today outlining how workers would be $8,700 worse off by now, if Peter Dutton had achieved his goal of blocking the Government’s major reforms to get wages moving.
April 9, 2025
The Coalition’s idea to give $12,000 to bosses is out of step with the real pressures facing apprentices and trainees in Australia
April 7, 2025
Legal advice from John Agius SC obtained by the ACTU confirms that a Dutton-led Coalition Government could only take work from home arrangements away from public sector workers through legislative change that would also take away work from home rights from all Australian workers.
April 6, 2025
Australian Unions have welcomed the Albanese Government’s Cheaper Home Batteries program as a significant cost of living relief measure to help working households lower their energy bills.
April 4, 2025
Australian Unions do not believe that Peter Dutton’s comment provides any real guarantee that labour hire workers’ wage increases are safe, given his strong track record. Peter Dutton has advised the Australian public to “look at what politicians do, as much, or probably more, than what they say”.
April 3, 2025
The measures Prime Minister Albanese announced today highlight the importance of protecting workers’ livelihoods amid global uncertainty.
April 3, 2025
The 4.5 percent claim directly affects the 2.6 million Australian workers whose pay is set by awards, but it also affects all working Australians, as it sets minimum wage floors.
March 31, 2025
Despite grocery prices growing at twice the rate of workers’ wages, Opposition Leader, Peter Dutton, sided with the major supermarkets and last year refused to back Labor’s legislation that would have put supermarkets on notice to improve their practices.
